Ferrari, Raikkonen: "Next year things will be better"

Kimi Raikkonen looks ahead. The Finnish Ferrari driver prefers it look forward to the 2015 season rather than having false illusions about the Hungarian Grand Prix as a relaunch of Ferrari's chase. The first part of the championship and Iceman have officially ended, with the team under his belt 27 points in the drivers' world championship, he found a reason to smile again. His best race of the season took place in Budapest and the sixth place finish, after the sprint from 16th position, can give us hope for the future. Yet the Finn is not too positive: Raikkonen has not hidden that these three weeks of break will not change the forces on the pitch. They will be playing for victory always Red Bull and Mercedes and Ferrari, perhaps, will have a better chance of getting on the podium.

“Overall I'm satisfied but disappointed with how things went for me. I'm full trust in Ferrari, I trust the men who work there and have high hopes for next year. In 2015 we might be able to fight for the victory and why not, get on the top step of the podium more often", confessed Raikkonen. It is forbidden to have any illusions: the results will only arrive next season. “I don't see how things can turn around over the course of three or four weeks. We need to focus on next year and I'm sure things will be better."

Even the Ferrari team principal, Marco Mattiacci, is of the same line of thought as Raikkonen even if he admits that the podium obtained in Hungary can be very useful to the team as motivational drive: “We must be very careful to judge correctly what happened this week. There is still an enormous amount of work to do, a podium cannot change the whole situation. We know what are the weak points of the car and how we can improve them", commented the team principal to the Spanish newspaper AS.

Eleonora Ottonello